The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-26
(rRsCESt0A YEAR
SCENTS A COPY
READINGS IDLE TRAINS.
ENGINE FIRES DRAWN ALL ALONG
THE LINE.

The General Manager of tie COM
pany Issues Warning that All Men
Who Fail to Return to Work To-
morrow will be Blaclllisted No Signs
Of Violence Yet.
READING, Pa, Dec. 25.-On last Sunday
over $500 loaded coal cars made up into
lfty-three trains passed through Reading
from the Schuyl1ill coal region for Port
Richmond and other points south Of this
this city. To-day not a single car was
moved and the coal trade is practically
dead. During the forenoon over 100 rail-
roads, whose trains were run on sidings
north and south of this city passed
through Reading bound for their homes,
which are mostly in the coal regions
Orders to strike were received early this
morning, and as far as the
were promptly obeyed. Immediately
thereafter General Manager Mcleod tele-
graphed orders that every engine attached
to trains lying on the sidings should be
housed and guarded, and this was promptly
done, the engines being run TO Reading.
Pottstown and other points. The company
employs at its shop in this city ahout2 900
that they are not included In the
order of the Knights to strike
but the leaders in this city expect such an
order very soon, so as TO more effectuailv
cripple the company. A meeting of the
Railroaders' Assembly was held here to-day.
and while no definite action was taken, the
prevailing sentiment was In favor of stand
ing by the strikers. The agents of the Read
ing company to-day actively canvassed
this section for mon to fill the places Of ths
strikers, and enable them to resume the
movement OF trains on Tuesday morning.
Master Workman Hawman, of this city. to-
day sent out kilograms notifying all the as
semblies of the decision to strike.
The exact complement of the Phi aiel-
phia Knights on q strike is 4,700. One of
the leaders of the strike says: I'VE have
decided to stop the hauling of perishabls
freight and passenger traffic as well should
the company attempt TO transport scab
labor over its lines TO take the place
of the men who have gone out We
are well equipped with funds. and we can
command sufficient money to pay 1900
men S3 so per day for two weeks to prevent
them from working for the Reading Com
pany.
NON UNION MEN AT WORK.
Engine No. 2SS of the Reading road, one
on which the so-called scab crew was placed
that precipitated the strike, worked hard
AMI did great amount of
work placing trains, coal and
| freight on side tracks from Nicetown into
| Port Richmond. As a result thirteen tracks,
| and in one place nineteen tracks, OF the
| Reading road from the round-house to Port
Richmond, a distance Of nine miles or 30, is
| solid mass OF cars. Scattered through
| the mass are twenty coal trains. with bur.
den of about 5000 tons Of coal. Between
| that place and Palo Alto it is said there are
sixty-eight trains, adding about $4,000
tons to the amount available for
immediate use. The officers Of the
road at Port Richmond Junction, say that
there is enough coal in the yards at Port
Richmond to supply the whole city for sew
eral days and they do not predict a coal FAM
inc. The men on strike claim that there
ara about 5000 tons OF coal at the port and
that there is not enough coal for the ordi-
nary purposes of the company. AS the
miners have stopped there viii be no coai,"
said one of the members OF the committee,
''and | can say that there viii be no coal
brought here until the strike is settled"
TRAFFIC AT A sTAEDsTILL.
SHAMoKIN, PA, Dec. 25.--Al the coal
and freight trains on the Mahanoy and
Shamolxin division of the Reading road
have been stopped and the men are firm In
their determination to move 10 traffic.
Owing to the Christmas holidays there ~
liGtle or i1E, coal db bDt LOT bulpiuhtlJ.
The general opinion in this region Is that
the strike now on in the Lehigh region and
this one will not be adjusted in tue course
of several weeks. The support now being
given to the Lehigh men will necessarily be
stopped.
MANAGER M'LEop's NOTICE.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec 25.--The following
notice was issued last night, signed by Cen
eral Manager Mcleod, of the Philadelphia
and Reading railroad: "Work win be re-
suined on Tuesday morning, Dec. 81 at the
Port Richmond yard. Employees will re-
port for duty at that time. The places of
such as do not report viii be filed by other
men, Men discharged for disobedience OF
orders in refusing to move trains to the
place OF their destination will not be per
initted to again enter the service Of ths
company In any capacity"
ABANDONING THE TRAINS.
NoRRIsTowH, Pa, Dec. 25.-Eight freight
and coal train crews abandoned their trains
befsTeen this place aud Conshohocken last
night. The men took their engines to Read
ing. All the side tracks in the vicinity OF
Bridgeport are occupied by trains from
which the locomotives have been uncoup-
led One train passed up the road this
afternoon in charge OF non-union
crew. One hundred men In Bridgeport are
out of employment. Local Assembly No.
9941 held meeting at that place this after
noon and received final word from the head
officers TO strike. The Bridgeport shifting
engines have been in charge Of non-uniou
men, who will continue at their posts.
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